by Judy Penz Sheluk | Jun 18, 2022 | Inspiration, My Publishing Journey
In A Fool’s Journey, book 3 in my Marketville Mystery series, protagonist Calamity (Callie) Barnstable seeks the help of a former white hat hacker, Benjamin (Ben) Benedetti in her search for Brandon Colbeck. I envisioned a guy in his early 40s, a mix of slightly...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Jun 11, 2022 | Inspiration, My Publishing Journey
In The Hanged Man’s Noose, the first book in my Glass Dolphin Mystery series, the basic premise is: greedy developer comes to the small town of Lount’s Landing with plans to build a mega-box store on the town’s historic Main Street, thereby...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | May 21, 2022 | Inspiration, My Publishing Journey
Readers of my Glass Dolphin Mystery series know that Levon Larroquette is an antiques picker (think of the TV show, American Pickers) and the charismatic ex-husband of protagonist Arabella Carpenter. In book 1 (The Hanged Man’s Noose) we find out exactly why...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | May 14, 2022 | My Publishing Journey
I spent the better part of my teen and early-mid twenties reading everything Agatha Christie wrote (including the six books written under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott. A while back, I reread the Murder on the Orient Express was pleasantly surprised to find that it...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Apr 23, 2022 | My Publishing Journey, Past & Present
When I was about sixteen, my mother and her best friend, Kay, dragged me to an “event” where a blind psychic would go into the audience, take a proffered object, and tell the owner something about it (for something like $10 a pop). At the time, Kay and my mom were big...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Feb 26, 2022 | My Marketing Journey, My Publishing Journey
Marketing books can be a bit of a full-time job (and not one I particularly enjoy…I like writing them, but the publicity part is far from second nature to me). That said, every now and again I’ll try something new. Here goes: The Superior Shores...
